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Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens...

More than $1 trillion has been transferred to Africa from rich countries in development-related aid in the last 50 years. Despite this, poverty levels continue to surge. Using Kenya as a case study,...

Ethno-politics has become a major force and source of conflict in the post-Cold War era. The challenge of the twenty-first century to military establishments in deeply plural societies is the...

This book focuses on the philosophies of Niccol? Machiavelli, the Daodejing, the Han Feizi, and the concepts of Fortune, the Dao, Virt?, Wu-wei, history, leadership, self-cultivation and discipline,...

Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault's work by focusing on its procedural elements. This book argues that despite their...

Foundations of Relational Realism presents an intuitive interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on a revised decoherent histories interpretation, structured within a category theoretic topological...

This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration,...

A free economy provides the best hope for a just and prosperous society, but wise government policy is needed to ensure that society provides opportunity and economic security for all. This book ties...

This book explores the notion of interreligious friendship. Friendship is one of the outcomes as well as conditions for advancing interfaith relations. However, for friendship to advance, there must...

From Jews to Muslims: Twentieth-Century Converts to Islam tells the stories of twentieth century Jewish intellectuals and activists and their various and complex reasons for converting to the Islamic...

From My Recent Past is a memoir written by Russian revolutionary Grigory Gershuni (1870-1908), the infamous mastermind behind the Combat Organization (CO) of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR)...

Future Psychoanalysis educes a structural theory of psychoanalysis from its informative theory, linking it to the other structural theories of the humanities. It posits that the future theory of...

Most books on young people in the global South focus on how Gen Z consumes content and are thus receivers of global cultural flows. Gen Z, Digital Media, and Transcultural Lives: At Home in the World...

This book studies the diversity of Ghanaian women's sexual expression in a patriarchal society that prioritizes heteronormativity and analyzes the ways Ghanaian women negotiate the patriarchal system...

This book analyzes the treatment and transformation of gender in French banlieue cinema at the intersection of race, body politics, ethnicity, religion, and social/economic class. The contributors...

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature.Author: Christina Mougoyanni HennessyPublisher: Lexington...

This book examines the position of women in formal peace making in the context of UNSC Resolution 1325. It asks if the resolution, passed seventeen years ago, has been consigned to the domain of...

This book analyzes the gendered and racialized discourses and practices of the Sudanese opposition in exile from 1990 to early 2000s. It uses intersectional analysis to explore the narratives of...

This book responds to the debate about the approach and effectiveness of batterer programs, especially in light of the evidence-based practice movement. Through a collection of interviews with...

Gender-Based Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa : Prevalence, Patterns, and PoliciesAuthor: Alex Asakitikpi, Patrick Bashizi Bashige MurhulaPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date: Oct 15, 2024Number...

This book offers contemporary perspectives on the different forms of gender-based violence in Africa through a legal, cultural, and sociological lens.Author: Abiodun RaufuPublisher: Lexington...

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase M?gica forges multiple lines of theory and practice to address one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the degree to which its scope of possibilities and its...

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between dance and geography. It includes articles from geographers, anthropologists, dance historians, architects, and urban...

Social divisions, great power rivalry, and outdated trade rules are eroding the political support for free trade. The consequence is trade uncertainty, economic fragmentation, and, most ominously,...

The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis...

Global James Bond explores the interplay between the global and the local in the longest-running film franchise in history. It considers how the world is envisaged in the series and reinterpreted on...

This book looks at two Korean communities, one in Sao Paulo and the other in Buenos Aires, in order to identify the global pulls that have affected Korean identity formation, community development...

From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be 'outsourced' in our globalized world. One would not think so with...

This collection examines successful resettlement practices based on examples from well-known resettlement and development practitioners. It includes experiences from resettlement campaigns in...